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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have a chance to test this right now, but I REALLY like the
idea. As a (non-official) library maintainer I'd use the hell out of
this.

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:40:30AM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote:
> bump :)
> 
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Oliver Walters <
> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Currently a lot of the .pretty libs have the library name (e.g.
> > "Socket_Strips.pretty") duplicated (or partly duplicated) in the footprint
> > name.
> >
> > This is (mainly) required to allow the footprint filtering in CvPCB to
> > match the filters defined for components.
> >
> > One case where this is very annoying is for the various
> > Connectors_xxx.pretty libraries (JST / Hirose / Harwin / etc). To reduce
> > the length of the filenames, a while ago the decision was made to remove
> > the Connector_ prefix from the individual filenames.
> >
> > However, this now means that generic connector symbols have to have
> > multiple footprint filters to match the various connector footprints.
> >
> > Looking through the code I saw that originally there was the option to
> > include the LibraryName: in the search string (which is what I wanted to
> > implement). However it was commented out as at some time a developer has
> > decided that this behaviour was "messy".
> >
> > I have attached a patch that does the following:
> >
> > 1. If a footprint filter contains a : (colon) character, then the filter
> > is matched against the pattern <LibName>:<FootprintName>
> > 2. If there is *no* : (colon) character present, then it is matched
> > against <FootprintName> (this is the current behaviour, and so will not
> > break any current footprint filters.
> > 3. The same behaviour applies for the manual filter string in CvPCB
> >
> > If merged, this will allow the .kicad_mod files to have significantly
> > shorter names and we can use the footprint association filters more
> > intelligently.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Oliver
> >